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Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.”

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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist known for his nonviolent protest and advocacy for equal rights. His 'I Have a Dream' speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 became a significant milestone in the American civil rights movement. more

“The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.”

Thinking Men Has Beens Different Church Singing West Accomplish Devotion Facets Brothels Bleakness

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves.”

Real Turns Water Slave Dust Denied Traveler Emperor Monarchs

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.”

Lying Individual Path Goodness Lays Errors Work Out Collectives Ritual Deities Clumsy

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection”

Concepts Perfection